Project

General

Profile

Actions

Bug #2226

closed

improve error message if stream memcaps too low

Added by Peter Manev about 7 years ago. Updated over 3 years ago.

Status:
Closed
Priority:
Normal
Assignee:
Target version:
Affected Versions:
Effort:
Difficulty:
Label:

Description

It seems af-packet and Napatech (reported and investigated by Philip Young) runmodes can not go beyond 117 threads.

sudo suricata -S /dev/null  -vvv -i eth0 --set af-packet.0.threads=118
...
[25950] 11/10/2017 -- 11:16:21 - (runmode-af-packet.c:491) <Config> (ParseAFPConfig) -- eth0: enabling zero copy mode by using data release call
[25950] 11/10/2017 -- 11:16:21 - (util-runmodes.c:288) <Info> (RunModeSetLiveCaptureWorkersForDevice) -- Going to use 118 thread(s)
[26068] 11/10/2017 -- 11:16:22 - (util-pool.c:169) <Error> (PoolInit) -- [ERRCODE: SC_ERR_POOL_INIT(66)] - alloc error
[26068] 11/10/2017 -- 11:16:22 - (util-pool-thread.c:119) <Error> (PoolThreadGrow) -- [ERRCODE: SC_ERR_POOL_INIT(66)] - pool grow failed

Suricata info -

This is Suricata version 4.0.0-dev (rev 11806875)
Features: PCAP_SET_BUFF AF_PACKET HAVE_PACKET_FANOUT LIBCAP_NG LIBNET1.1 HAVE_HTP_URI_NORMALIZE_HOOK PCRE_JIT HAVE_NSS HAVE_LUA HAVE_LUAJIT HAVE_LIBJANSSON TLS MAGIC 
SIMD support: SSE_4_2 SSE_4_1 SSE_3 
Atomic intrisics: 1 2 4 8 16 byte(s)
64-bits, Little-endian architecture
GCC version 6.3.0 20170516, C version 199901
compiled with _FORTIFY_SOURCE=0
L1 cache line size (CLS)=64
thread local storage method: __thread
compiled with LibHTP v0.5.25, linked against LibHTP v0.5.25

Suricata Configuration:
  AF_PACKET support:                       yes
  PF_RING support:                         no
  NFQueue support:                         no
  NFLOG support:                           no
  IPFW support:                            no
  Netmap support:                          no
  DAG enabled:                             no
  Napatech enabled:                        no

  Unix socket enabled:                     yes
  Detection enabled:                       yes

  Libmagic support:                        yes
  libnss support:                          yes
  libnspr support:                         yes
  libjansson support:                      yes
  hiredis support:                         no
  hiredis async with libevent:             no
  Prelude support:                         no
  PCRE jit:                                yes
  LUA support:                             yes, through luajit
  libluajit:                               yes
  libgeoip:                                yes
  Non-bundled htp:                         no
  Old barnyard2 support:                   no
  CUDA enabled:                            no
  Hyperscan support:                       no
  Libnet support:                          yes

  Rust support (experimental):             no
  Experimental Rust parsers:               no
  Rust strict mode:                        no

  Suricatasc install:                      yes

  Profiling enabled:                       no
  Profiling locks enabled:                 no

Development settings:
  Coccinelle / spatch:                     yes
  Unit tests enabled:                      no
  Debug output enabled:                    no
  Debug validation enabled:                no

Generic build parameters:
  Installation prefix:                     /usr
  Configuration directory:                 /etc/suricata/
  Log directory:                           /var/log/suricata/

  --prefix                                 /usr
  --sysconfdir                             /etc
  --localstatedir                          /var

  Host:                                    x86_64-pc-linux-gnu
  Compiler:                                gcc (exec name) / gcc (real)
  GCC Protect enabled:                     no
  GCC march native enabled:                yes
  GCC Profile enabled:                     no
  Position Independent Executable enabled: no
  CFLAGS                                   -g -O2 -march=native
  PCAP_CFLAGS                               -I/usr/include
  SECCFLAGS                                

Actions #1

Updated by Victor Julien about 7 years ago

Does this go away if the stream.memcap and/or stream.reassembly.memcap is increased?

Actions #2

Updated by Peter Manev about 7 years ago

In the case of af-packet (v3):
When the memcaps are adjusted - stream.memcap=1GB and stream.reassembly.memcap=2GB
It helps - it spins up the threads.

In the case of Napatech (--napatech):
The stream.memcap=12GB and stream.reassembly.memcap=24GB but that did not help.

How are the stream memcaps related in the two separate cases?

Actions #3

Updated by Peter Manev about 7 years ago

I am reconfirming the config used in the napatech run - as i suspect the issue goes away after the memcaps are increased. I will feedback as soon as I have more info.

Actions #4

Updated by Peter Manev about 7 years ago

The issue goes away with Napatech (as confirmed by Philip) when increasing the stream and reassembly memcaps.

Actions #5

Updated by Victor Julien about 7 years ago

  • Subject changed from af-packet / napatech - thread pool grow failed to improve error message if stream memcaps too low

So this problem is mostly about poor error reporting.

Actions #6

Updated by Andreas Herz about 7 years ago

  • Assignee set to OISF Dev
  • Target version set to TBD
Actions #7

Updated by Victor Julien about 7 years ago

  • Status changed from New to Assigned
  • Assignee changed from OISF Dev to Victor Julien
  • Target version changed from TBD to 70
Actions #8

Updated by Victor Julien about 7 years ago

  • Status changed from Assigned to Closed
  • Target version changed from 70 to 4.0.1
Actions

Also available in: Atom PDF